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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think I am.  I just think the wealthy at a private school being infuriated at the super-wealthy at a private school shows a lack of self-awareness.  It's just a very weird place to draw the line  ("THIS is where I draw the line on whether being rich should give you an advantage") when 99% of America is already way behind you.[/quote]
Such a good point.  The "it's okay for me to take advantage of my privilege, but someone more rich/connected exerting their uber-privilege?" pearl-clutching is a bit ironic.[/quote]

Yep. OP, you need to examine your own privileges before casting shade on everyone else’s. [/quote]

I fully admit I had privileges. [b]My point was that high schools can be just as complicit as the colleges  in this pay to play game for college acceptance.[/b][/quote]

[b]There's a ton of mediocre rich kids in these "elite" DC area privates. Now you know why[/b].[/quote]

+1[/quote]

It is always so amusing to read the "chip on their shoulder" public magnet parents, "donut-hole" parents and "I attended an elite prep school 25 years ago but would never send my kids there" parents passing judgment on the talent of kids and the academic rigor of top DCUM privates.  Their resentment comes through as sour grapes.  This is an area with an extremely educated population.  Do you really think that many or most of the kids in these schools are morons?  The number of spots in these schools is small, the number trying to get in is large.  There may be an occasional legacy or kid of the president with a slightly lower academic profile, but they have to be good enough to take many of the same classes with academic all-stars.  Most of the families are professionals who worked their way to prosperity through intelligence and hard work (IMF, World Bank, medicine, law, etc.). Many immigrant parents; plenty who grew up working or middle class and turned their own Ivy/SLAC education into enough money or savvy to apply for FA.  The kids at our Big 3 are almost all very smart and incredibly hard-working.  No one is buying their college admissions, and no one needs to.[/quote]

The privates only accept the most academically gifted three-year olds -- only those three-year olds with the most impressive resumes. [/quote]

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